Lina extra offensive item build

Hi to all,

I'm curious to hear your oppinion about this: lately I've been going with the following mid-game item build on Lina: Phase Boots, Orchid Malevolence, Desolator, Shadow Blade. So, I skipped early items, and also skipped later items for now.

My justification:

1. Lina's Fiery Soul attack speed bonus is just an insane thing. Now, if she has a lot of damage, this should make her right click a really powerful weapon. So this justifies focusing on items which grant bonus damage and intelligence. I have boosted her total right-click damage to over 300, and it is really impressive when stacked with Fiery soul bonus attack speed

2. Orchid Malevolence grants pretty much enough mana regeneration for a good mid-game, so her mana problems are pretty much solved

3. Shadow Blade and Phase Boots provide a useful escape mechanism (later and earlier, respectively), to account for her squishy-ness

4. The order of Desolator and Shadow Blade can be reversed, depending on how the game is going - if more defence is needed, then Shadow Blade goes first, while still granting bonus damage

Just to note: my MMR is extremely low, and I am not hiding the fact that I'm a noob. But with over 300 Lina games, I'm starting to think how to make her contribute more to a game than just simply playing support (which I don't believe she is really ment to) or being passive after casting her spells and combos.

Any feedback is highly appreciated.

Terrible.

First thing I need to clarify is that Shadow Blade was never an escape mechanism, as it is easily countered by an 180 gold Dust of Appearance. But since you have said that you are from 1k bracket so I assume it would works really well.

Lina who rushes offensive item is squishy and easy to kill without any defensive item. Enemy with invis or blink like Riki or Nyx Assassin will eat you for breakfast. And they works really well in low skill bracket because nobody bother buying Sentry Ward, let alone Observer Ward, which makes a Spirit Breaker a walking moo-ing combo to kill you as well.

I personally like to first getting an Aghanim's Scepter, Eul's Scepter of Divinity or a Blink Dagger for more option in teamfight in both offensive or defensive. Rushing item like Desolator or Orchid Malevolence is a very situational build as enemy can easily counter you with a Blade Mail. Of course it works well against squishy target like Crystal Maiden or Skywrath Mage but so does a pure combo of WQR. Shadow Blade is a bad item for Lina as it doesn't provide tankiness that Lina needed and the only thing that worth getting is the break from Silver Edge, but you should leave it to someone else like Slark or Tusk who can make a better use of it.

By the way you should get a Bloodstone first if you are really that stomping with Lina,

Demoni it would be nice if you say more words than "terrible "
Ok about ur opinion, hmm your build has so many flaws
1) orchid is better to be replaced with eul, mana regen, movement speed and its active that syncs with your stun it much better than silence
2) shadow blade it not an escape mechanism but its a good item for carry lina any way
3) deso is not good almost any other damage item is better, lina can have very high attack speed so items with good proc chance like mkb and daedalus are much better
4) she is squishy af so you better build some hp before you go for damage if you like her extea carry my favourite choice is skadi,
Gl with dota and hf

Thanks for the replies. I will meditate upon them and return with further questions.

No problem bro ask whatever you want. we all have been noobs once upon a time so no big D

OK, here is the second iteration, in a bit more detail. Let's assume we're talking about a mid-Lina here, and let's assume there is no support player in the game.

1) Starting items:

Tango, 2x Clarity, Iron Branch, Circlet, Animal Courier, Observer Ward

2) Next set of items:

Boots of Speed, Null Talisman

3) Next:

Arcane Boots, Soul Ring

4) Next:

Bloodstone.

From this point on, we have a Lina which can basically spam spells and start to farm at a much faster rate. I don't believe the build from 1) to 4) should be particularry bad. Now, what comes next is where I need advice.

5) Next:

Hurricane Pike

"Justification": escape + attack without range restrictions? Sounds nice. Also, pretty solid attribute gains

6) Next:

Daedalus

"Justification": +80 damage with 30% chance of 235% critical damage? Sounds good

7) Next, now this is where I don't have a clue, because all sounds good:

7.1.) Eye of Skadi - Damn, +25 all attributes can't be bad, can it? Also, nice passive - attack and movement slow

7.2.) Heart of Tarrasque - Perhaps could solve squishiness a bit with the huge amount of health you gain with it

7.3.) Octarine Core - Reduced spell cooldown + lifesteal? Sounds damn good

Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this.

get Phase, blight, euls, deso, mjolnir and the remaining items dont even matter... beware of blademails and u be good.

se vs bb or studff like that but thats not lina specific in my book

beats any build with bs or what not